Enhancing Retrieval Augmented Generation with Hierarchical Text Segmentation Chunking
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| author | Nguyen, Hai Toan Nguyen, Tien Dat Nguyen, Viet Ha |
| author_facet | Nguyen, Hai Toan Nguyen, Tien Dat Nguyen, Viet Ha |
| contents | Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems commonly use chunking strategies for retrieval, which enhance large language models (LLMs) by enabling them to access external knowledge, ensuring that the retrieved information is up-to-date and domain-specific. However, traditional methods often fail to create chunks that capture sufficient semantic meaning, as they do not account for the underlying textual structure. This paper proposes a novel framework that enhances RAG by integrating hierarchical text segmentation and clustering to generate more meaningful and semantically coherent chunks. During inference, the framework retrieves information by leveraging both segment-level and cluster-level vector representations, thereby increasing the likelihood of retrieving more precise and contextually relevant information. Evaluations on the NarrativeQA, QuALITY, and QASPER datasets indicate that the proposed method achieved improved results compared to traditional chunking techniques. |
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| spellingShingle | Enhancing Retrieval Augmented Generation with Hierarchical Text Segmentation Chunking Nguyen, Hai Toan Nguyen, Tien Dat Nguyen, Viet Ha Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems commonly use chunking strategies for retrieval, which enhance large language models (LLMs) by enabling them to access external knowledge, ensuring that the retrieved information is up-to-date and domain-specific. However, traditional methods often fail to create chunks that capture sufficient semantic meaning, as they do not account for the underlying textual structure. This paper proposes a novel framework that enhances RAG by integrating hierarchical text segmentation and clustering to generate more meaningful and semantically coherent chunks. During inference, the framework retrieves information by leveraging both segment-level and cluster-level vector representations, thereby increasing the likelihood of retrieving more precise and contextually relevant information. Evaluations on the NarrativeQA, QuALITY, and QASPER datasets indicate that the proposed method achieved improved results compared to traditional chunking techniques. |
| title | Enhancing Retrieval Augmented Generation with Hierarchical Text Segmentation Chunking |
| topic | Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09935 |